Safety ash tray



June 15 1926.

INVENTOR M WING SAFETY ASH TRAY Original May 5, I;

- ATTORNEY Patented June '15, 1926.

UNITED STATES 1,588,565 PATENT OFFICE.

MAY WING, OF STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA.

SAFETY Asa TRAY.

Application filed May 3, 1924, Serial No. 710,747. Renewed March 10, 1926.

This invention relates to improvements in what are commonly known as ash-trays, to receive burnt matches, cigar and cigarette stubs, and the ashes therefrom.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a device of this character, especially adapted for use on automoblles, and so constructed that any live ashes or stubs will-positively be extinguished before the contents of the tray are emptied on the ground or elsewhere.

By reason of the use of the device on an automobile therefore, there will be no chance of any smouldering and live stubs or ashes being deposited on the ground in dry grass or leaves, and possibly starting a fire, assuming of course that the smoker makes use of the tray, which any rightminded motorist will do.

A further object of the invention is to produce a simple and inexpensive device and yet one which will be exceedingly eifec-' tive for the purpose for which it is designed. These objects I accomplish by means of such structure and relative arrangement of parts as will fully appear by a perusal of the following specification and claims. I In the drawings'similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views:

Fig. 1 is a pers ective view of the device, installed in the ront compartment of an automobile. j

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the device detached.

Fig. 3 is a cross section on the line 33 of Fig. 2. I

Referring now' more particularly to the characters of reference on the drawings, the numeral 1 denotes a funnel shapedmemher, in which is removably hung, for turning or upsetting movement in a vertical plane, a bowl-shaped receptacle 2. A handle or knob 3 is provided with one of the pivotal pins 4 of the receptacle, to enable the latter to be readily tilted or upset into the funnel which supports the same.

Depending from the funnel and formed as a continuationthereof' is a pipe 5, connected at its lower end to a casing 6 provided with an annu'lar flange 7 forming a seat for a flap valve 8 of suitable construction, and adaptedto open downwardly and to then lie vertically and fit into one side of the casing 6 so as to provide an unobstructed passage there past.

The valve is pivoted on a stem 9, which is provided on its outer end with a handle 10 so that the valve may be manipulated at will. A spring 11 arranged in connection with the stem 9 acts to .hold the valve seated against the flange 7 at all times, or/ until the handle is operated.

Another length of pipe 12 is. connected to the casing 6 below the valve, this pipe being adapted to project through and terminate below. the floor 13 of the car on which the device is mounted.

The structure is intended to be placed in a vertical position against the side of the car as shown, or in any other suitable location. Various means may be employed for attaching the device to the car structure, as for instance cars 14 projecting from the casing 6 to abut against the side 15 of the the like.

In operation, the pipe 5 is kept filled with Water as at 17, to a ,point where there is no danger of the same splashing out from the top of the funnel with any movement of the car.

The user, after depositing any ashes, matches or stubs in the bowl 2, will upset the same by turning the knob 3, thereby depositing the matter carried by the bowl into the water in the pipe below. Certain extinguishing of any live ashes or stubs will of course be had. 'The bowl may then be again used, and the upsetting operation repeated, without necessarily emptying the water, which can be left in the pipe until refilling means are handy.

To empty the pipe, it is only necessary- From the foregoing description it will be readily seen that I have produced such a device as substantially fulfills the objects of the invention as set forth herein.

\Vhile this specification sets forth in detail the present and preferred construction of the device, still in practice such deviacar and to receive fastening screws 16 or s tions from such detail may be resorted to as do not form a departure from the spirit of the invention, as defined by the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A safety ash tray including a vertical tubular member open at both ends and adapted to be mounted in a fixed position with its lower end in a position to discharge into the open, means for enabling a supply of water, dischargeable at will from the lower end of the tube, to be carried in the latter; and an upsettable ash bowl mounted in the tube above the water level, said bowl normally forming a closure member for the tube whereby to prevent water from splashing out of the upper end of the tube.

2. A safety ash tray including a vertical pipe structure open at both ends and adapted to be mounted in a fixed position with its lower end in a position to discharge into the open, means for enabling a supplv of water, dischargeable at will from the lower end of the pipe, to be carried in the latter; an ash receptacle mounted in connection with the pipe above the water level, and means enabling the contents of the receptacle to be emptied into the water at will.

In testimony whereof I afiix by signature.

MAY l/VING. 

